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First Snow of the winter

Friday it snowed for the first time this winter. I'm sure the stuff will be here until we go home New Years Eve, but the 1st snow is always the funnest. It was late for the 1st snow this year, other years we had snow in early October. The snow is bittersweet because I rather have pretty snow if...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on November 15 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

Things you buy in China that you'd never buy in the States

We went downtown to try to get Little Guy's picture drawn. The artists were gone, so we snapped a couple of pictures of St. Sophias instead. We thought of walking to the flood monument because sometimes artists are there, but Little Guy is not much of a hiker. Little Guy certainly is spiritual,...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on November 9 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

Haircut

Little Guy needed another haircut. His first haircut happened when I was teaching in Beijing. He didn't enjoy it. There was much discussion about his sideburns. The hairdresser wanted to leave them and refused to cut them off. Sideburns are thought to be good here. Apparently it means you have...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on November 6 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

Little Guy's 1st Birthday with US

Wooohooo! More cake. Actually we didn't pick his cake out the ayi did. We have been sick and were at the hospital yesterday and the day before. I went thru with monks and my bill was quite low. Chris was charged 4 times as much as me. Usually our prior experience with illness in China is that...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on October 29 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

Fall inHarbin

This fall has been the nicest and longest we have had in China. We have taken some nice walks around campus. We enjoy the Chickens. But don't like playing Chicken! We like people watching. They seem to watch us too. The good thing about China is that is never the same place twice. Even...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on October 25 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

The water cycle

A few days ago they turned on the heat full time. Yeah, we like to be warm. In Shenyang, they waited until 3 snows before the cranked the furnace and then it was never very warm even. One of the reasons we moved to Harbin was that even though it is super cold, they believe in cranking the heat...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on October 20 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

Ethnic Museum

Sunday we decided to visit the Temple/Museum on our campus. It has recently been restored and is free. I'm not sure if it is a Province or City Museum. The restoration was really grand. I had been to the non-restored part over a year ago. They didn't let you take pictures inside the buildings...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on October 11 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

Onions, the smell of fall

The sign of fall in the treeless urban jungle is the appearance of vegetables everywhere out to dry. My 3rd year in China and I do still find this as fascinating as the leaf changes in the South. My awe is the amazing places they will put the veggies. And how they are so symmetrical and orderly...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on October 10 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

Spiritual

Little Guy is so spiritual. I think it is really fascinating since he is deaf. When he first came to us, we took him to a temple and he was so serious in praying to all the Buddas. Since then, we have seen him pray to almost any statue. Our least fav is when he insists to bow down at all the...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on October 6 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

National Day

Due to the fear of pig flu, the cut our National Day Holiday to 1 day. We celebrated by picking up Little Guy's custom made clothes. Since the addition of him to the family, shopping has become quite a chore. He came with the clothes on his back, so he has needed a complete wardrobe. We have...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on October 5 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

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